Located on Veterans Memorial Highway, this low-key Mexican restaurant features a stacked menu that includes everything from chimichangas and taco and enchilada plates to tortas, tostadas, bistec ranchero, and glass goblets filled to the brim with shrimp cocktail. For people who crave heat, make sure to order the diablo sauce for dipping chips and garnishing tacos. Wash it all down with a margarita.

Regulars to this Marietta Mexican restaurant tout the friendly service, not to mention the food and margaritas and mojitos from the bar here. Start off with the aptly named El Trio, a trio of guacamole, queso, and salsa paired with fresh chips. Next, order the braised pork burrito, carne asada plate served with rice, beans, and corn tortillas, or the chorizo torta garnished with lettuce, tomato, and pickled jalapenos. The restaurant also includes a selection of breakfast dishes.

Chef Eddie Hernandez now has four Atlanta locations of his super popular Mexican-Southern restaurant, Taqueria Del Sol. Lines often form at both the Decatur and Westside Provisions District restaurants, with people clamoring for chopped smoked pork tacos (the Memphis) and fried chicken tacos. Try the Mission Burrito stuffed with Mexican rice, charros beans, and pork stew. It’s served with a fresh cucumber and tomato salad. Pair it with one of the restaurant’s margaritas, which can come by the pitcher. Keep an eye out for specials, too.

Folks in the south metro would be wise to check out this Jonesboro Mexican restaurant institution serving a taste of Oaxaca on its menu. This includes the restaurant’s popular tlayuda — a pizza-like dish that sees a toasted tortilla topped with refried beans, cheese, choice of meat, and lettuce. Beyond the Oaxacan specialities found here, there’s also plenty of tacos, tamal plates, and dishes like chile relleno, bistec ranchero, and goat barbacoa served with rice and beans.

A popular spot for Mexican food in Grant Park, this family-owned and operated restaurant features homestyle dishes on the menu, like chile relleno, generous taco plates, and chimichangas stuffed with meat, rice, and beans. Relax and order a cold beer or horchata before digging into the food from this congenial spot on Memorial.

With locations in Forest Park and College Park, Taqueria Don Sige serves what regulars to this restaurant say are the best tacos around town. Try the tripe, cabeza, or lengua tacos here or one of the torta sandwiches on the menu.

There’s no shortage of great Mexican food spots along Buford Highway, but La Pastorcita might be one of the best restaurants to sit down and enjoy a plate of freshly made tacos, chilaquiles, flautas, and ceviche tostadas paired with an ice cold beer and soccer on the television. Open late.

A Buford Highway institution, Plaza Fiesta is filled with over 140 retail shops and a food court offering everything from tortas, tamales, goat barbacoa, and tacos to classic Mexican seafood dishes, and even Venezuelan fare. There’s a stall serving fresh juices and a farmers market here, too. Grab food from multiple stalls at Plaza Fiesta to create a festival of dishes for the table.

A recent addition to the Decatur dining scene, Los Ninos Taqueria serves everything from chicken tinga and al pastor street tacos in handmade corn tortillas to hearty tortas brimming with barbacoa, carnitas, or chorizo and all the trimmings. Make sure to order churros for dessert. If dining in, definitely order the chorizo chipotle queso with a fresh basket of chips and a margarita served on the rocks.

A Mexican restaurant list couldn’t exist in Atlanta without this Buford Highway stalwart. El Rey Del Taco is known around town for its generous taco platters and exceptionally strong margaritas. There’s typically a wait here on the weekends, and often in the evenings, too. If there, purchase churros from the man who pops into the restaurant on occasion selling the fried dough treat in the dining room.

Just follow the fragrant column of smoke rising above this family-owned and operated restaurant serving Sinaloan-style chicken on the menu. Order half and whole roasted birds with sides of rice and beans and fresh flour tortillas. Make sure to order extra hot sauce, which comes as mild, medium, and very hot. The dining room often fills with people eating platters of roasted chicken and grilled steak while also watching soccer. There’s even menudo served at Sinaloense Pollo Asados on the weekends.

Frida’s Taqueria in Lilburn offers everything from gorditas and tacos to empanadas and flautus on the menu. Seeking birria? The restaurant serves a birria quesadilla and a three birria taco plate with a side of consomme for dipping. Order one of the aguas frescas to drink and choco-flan for dessert.

Featuring a menu filled with regional dishes found throughout Mexico, regulars to this family-owned and operated restaurant in Duluth swear by the food and friendly service here. Begin a meal at Alebrije Mexican Cuisine with a few shared appetizers, like the jicama Baja tacos topped with lime habanero slaw or a sizzling bowl of queso fundido with spicy chorizo. Next, order the slow-cooked cochinita pibil, Alebrije shrimp drizzled with tamarind mezcal chipotle sauce, or the puntas al mezcal, beef tips cooked with cactus, pasilla peppers, tomatoes, onions, and cilantro. Make sure to also order the crepas con cajeta or espresso flan for dessert and either a tamarind margarita or frozen passionfruit margarita to drink.